You know, to have a monopoly, you do, I think, have to have a situation where one
company provides the entire consumer population with all of the resources of a specified
type being consumed... you get the idea.
Now... what resource, exactly, is Verisign
providing? Are they providing us services of, say, making sure there's fair access
to the pretty much unlimited supply of domain names? Are they providing, err... tech
support? Is there any reason -at all- why only one company should be doing this,
or any company at all? If it were coal, yes, there'd be a hard resource, specified
limits on the quantities, and the ability to control access... but this is names
- we don't have a service keeping us from naming our babies anything (including billie
bob joe the fourty-second) so why our servers? Freedom!
-Philip
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